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At the Lake James Christian Assembly, there has been a spreading of Love of sorts. For more than 70 years, the Love family has made LJCA their life’s mission. Sybil, middle, and John Love, right, are retiring after many years of service to
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FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne operations of Northrop Grumman Corp. will relocate to the Chicago area in the coming months as the company adjusts along with other defense contractors to reduced U.S. military spending. Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems employs about 20 at its offices at 6112 Constitution Drive. “By the end of the year the employees, the ones transferring, will transfer and the building will be closed,” said Scott Maddox, site manager. The Falls Church, Va.-based defense contractor plans to fold the work they are doing into its operations in Rolling Meadows, Ill., where a company website states it employs more than 2,100.
the assembly. Their son, Matt Love, far left, has assumed executive directorship of the assembly. There will be a farewell reception for Sybil and John Love Sunday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the assembly’s dining hall. The public is invited.
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Love calls it a career at Lake James Christian Assembly BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
LAKE JAMES — Lake James Christian Assembly has long been about spreading the Love. John and Sybil Love have a combined service of more than 70 years to the facility, which is a youth camp and retreat center located on the south end of Lake James’ first basin. Their family’s devotion to the mission has become a legacy of sorts. Sybil retired from the assembly in 2010 and now works for WorkOne. John is leaving Oct. 31 after managing the facility for 36 years.
LJCA’s 84-year history The youth camp and retreat center’s history is long in building a mission in faith.
At one point, LJCA was a large resort. The plush grounds had a three-story hotel, grocery store, post office and large dance hall. In the roaring 1920s, J.O. Rose, an elder at Angola Christian Church, grew concerned that there was liquor being smuggled into the resort and other reckless activity. Rose and others had a dream to start a church school. “They planted a seed and said, ‘Wouldn’t this be a great place to have a conference center?’ A group in Fort Wayne also wanted to buy it, but it was sold to the Christians,” John said. In 1928, one dozen men — including two circuit riders — bought the resort with an $800 personal loan and a mortgage for $15,000 was signed, which was unheard of in those days. The assembly acquired the
deed and LJCA was born Jan. 5, 1929, and a dedication and evangelistic meeting was held. Attendance averaged 300-400 for more than three weeks. Later, youth camps and training for mission work was introduced.
The Love connection John was hired in 1977 as the camp’s third full-time manager and has remained so since. His wife, Sybil, worked on the summer staff during her high school and college years for five years. After that, she’s worked in a variety of areas, including assistant secretary, office manager from 1994-2010. When the Loves married June 3, 1972, Sybil was head cook and John was the assistant cook. “I earned $25 per week in the kitchen
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Manufacturing Day Kent Shininger, front end supervisor, and Nic Carlson, sales representative, talk about different manufacturing processes to Fremont High School students at Koester Metals Inc., Fremont, Friday.
FREMONT — The Fremont Classroom Teachers Association voted to ratify a new contract with Fremont Community Schools on Thursday afternoon. In Friday’s Herald Republican, the stage at which negotiations were in was incorrectly stated. The FCTA and Fremont Schools are in the bargaining and negotiating part of the contract process. The teachers’ contract expired in June and they have been working without an agreement with the school district. The contract approved Thursday was based on negotiations between the FCTA and the school district. A tentative agreement had been reached between the teachers and the board by Oct. 1 as is stipulated by the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board, which oversees labor relations between public school teachers and school districts. The contract now goes before the Fremont Board of Education in a special meeting on Monday. The board will first meet at 6 p.m. in executive session to discuss collective bargaining, as allowed by law. The board will hold a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. to deal with the contract. Fremont has 61 teachers, of which 29 are members of the FCTA. The Herald Republican regrets the error.
For the second straight year, Koester opened its doors during the national observance of Manufacturing Day.
to stay home from economic summits in Asia as Democrats stepped up pressure on congressional Republicans to rein in their tea party faction and reopen the government with no strings attached. House Republicans said that with Congress and the president in town this weekend, now is the perfect time to start negotiating a plan to reopen the government. “All I’m asking for is let’s sit down, like the American people would expect us, and talk to one another about getting the government open and dealing with the significant problems that we face,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Friday. “This isn’t some damn game.” GOP leaders said Friday the House will be in session Saturday so that Republicans can continue passing bills that would reopen selected parts of the federal government. The White House responded by issuing fresh veto threats, saying Congress should reopen the entire federal government. The Labor Department, meanwhile, did not issue the monthly employment report for September that was due Friday because of the shutdown. The White House called the partial government shutdown that entered its fourth day Friday “completely avoidable.”
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